Something odd has been going on when watching Hulu videos that have an advertisement by Kay Jewelers, that I don't understand. Adobe Flash Player pops this dialog:
I'm not quite certain the function of the two buttons, but I'm guessing that "Dismiss" means to abort something, and "Continue"...
Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.2 (October 8, 2013): Bulletin revised to announce a detection change in the 2781197 package. This is a detection change only. Customers who have already successfully updated their systems do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update...
Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (October 8, 2013): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a specially crafted web request to an...
Revision Note: V1.1 (August 13, 2013): Added the 2862966 and 2862973 updates to the Available Updates and Release Notes section.
Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of updates as part of ongoing efforts to improve cryptography and digital certificate handling in Windows. Microsoft...
Revision Note: V1.0 (August 13, 2013): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update for supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 that restricts the use of certificates...
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On my laptop, I run a program (can't think of the name) that warns me of all attempted changes to anything.
I'm getting the following notice, which I deny, as I think it is asking to delete a vital Windows command.
cmd.exe / o/D /c del c:/users/me/appdaata/local/temp/O.del
in my temp...
Hi, Yesterday my antivirus started popping up with a virus/trojan Trojan.Win32.Hosts2.gen. I have a few windows.old from new installs, and this thing is traveling from those installs to the current one, zonealarm treats it but then it comes back. I ran spybot hoping it was some kind of...
Chrome was hacked and used to take over windows....here's the whole story.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57573064-83/researchers-win-$100000-for-chrome-hack-that-leaves-windows-vulnerable/
Users of the music streaming and scrobbling service last.fm should be prepared to change their password in the wake of this announcement, that seemingly, has gone under the radar:
"We strongly recommend that you change your password now, while we investigate a security problem. Find out more."...
I got a message from windowscontrolscanning.in that I have all these sercurity risks and for me to download their zip file. I put windowscontrolscanning.in in the address bar and nothing came up. I downloaded Malwarebytes free trial and got rid of 8 files. So I ordered the full version of...
It took Redmond 1 day to kill a threat that allowed users with a Firefox add-on (Tamper Data) to remotely reset the password of a Hotmail account and allowing them to access the outgoing HTTP request, then modify the data.
Microsoft was notified April 20, 2012, applied the fix April 21...
Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (March 13, 2012): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Expression Design. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate...